Black Wool Skirt with Ribbonwork and Beaded Double Curves

Black Wool Skirt with Ribbonwork and Beaded Double Curves

50.1/ 1450

Black wool skirt with ribbonwork edged with clear seed beads.

1845-1907

Anishinaabe

Chippewa of the Thames First Nation; Muncey Town, Ontario

Associated with Maungwadaus - entire outfit, including bag, in same style as the Maungwadaus collection at the ROM. A photograph of a woman wearing this skirt is published in Ruth Phillips' Trading Identities - see Relation.

Black woolen broadcloth, silk ribbon, glass seed beads, black cotton sateen.

Donated by Erastus T. Tefft, 1910.

southern style; Maungwadaus

Phillips, Ruth B. 1998. Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Vancouver: UBC Press.

43.05011, -80.08295 (N 43°03′00″ W 80°04′59″)

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L:100 (in CM)

skirt